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The +10 diopter lens occluder
- Source :
- Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960). 118(8)
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Background It would be useful to be able to visualize the eye under cover during the cover test. Used as an occluder, a +10 diopter (D) lens will permit such visualization. It is important to know if a +10D lens creates dissociation that is qualitatively similar to an opaque occluder. Methods The angle of strabismus was measured in 33 patients with esotropia. Seventeen had intermittent exotropia, and 15 had dissociated vertical divergence with both an opaque occluder and a +10D lens used as an occluder. The findings were then compared. Results In 64 of the 65 patients participating in this study, the measurements obtained with the 2 occluders agreed within 3 prism diopters on repeated testing. In the remaining patient, the measurements differed by 5 prism diopters. In all patients, the dissociated eye could be clearly visualized through the +10D lens. Conclusion A +10D lens permits excellent visualization of the dissociated eye and provides measurements that are qualitatively similar to those obtained with a standard occluder.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Optics and Photonics
Materials science
genetic structures
Eye disease
Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological
law.invention
Optics
law
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Cover test
Strabismus
Dioptre
business.industry
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Lens (optics)
Dissociated vertical deviation
sense organs
Sensory Deprivation
business
Esotropia
Intermittent exotropia
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00039950
- Volume :
- 118
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e22763cab0e2fcb17927b81bed2b8a6e